Sending Macbook Pro in... Reformat???

I'm sending my macbook pro in for repair (Sound card and overheating). Do you think I'll need to reformat my HD before sending it in? I have numerous phone numbers, my email accounts, iChat friends etc etc that I don't feel like having tampered with. Should I be worried about sending it out to apple? Or should it be fine as is???

I'm sending my macbook pro in for repair (Sound card and overheating). Do you think I'll need to reformat my HD before sending it in? I have numerous phone numbers, my email accounts, iChat friends etc etc that I don't feel like having tampered with. Should I be worried about sending it out to apple? Or should it be fine as is???

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To be safe I would.... besides I think apple reformats the Hard drive when they get it anyways

Then again, anything less than 3 zero writes probably won't be able to keep them out (boot into disk utility)

If your really sensitive about it then do what I've described and do a fresh install. They will need to log into your machine anyway, and if you want it back within a reasonable amount of time, let them get it out of the queue as soon as possible.

I never ever relinquish control of my computer without backing up all my data to an external and wiping the drive clean, usually with the 1-pass zero writing and reinstalling the OS and updates. This does a couple of things: it helps to establish a hardware/software problem's reproducibility under clean conditions and it gives me total peace of mind that my data is not in the wrong or curious hands.

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